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A New Approach to Probabilistic Programming Inference
Frank Wood, Jan Willem van de Meent, Vikash Mansinghka
We introduce and demonstrate a new approach to inference in expressive probabilistic programming languages based on particle Markov chain Monte Carlo. Our approach is simple to imp…
Automatic Inference for Inverting Software Simulators via Probabilistic Programming
Ardavan Saeedi, Vlad Firoiu, Vikash Mansinghka
Models of complex systems are often formalized as sequential software simulators: computationally intensive programs that iteratively build up probable system configurations given…
JUMP-Means: Small-Variance Asymptotics for Markov Jump Processes
Jonathan H. Huggins, Karthik Narasimhan, Ardavan Saeedi +1
Markov jump processes (MJPs) are used to model a wide range of phenomena from disease progression to RNA path folding. However, maximum likelihood estimation of parametric models l…
Particle Gibbs with Ancestor Sampling for Probabilistic Programs
Jan-Willem van de Meent, Hongseok Yang, Vikash Mansinghka +1
Particle Markov chain Monte Carlo techniques rank among current state-of-the-art methods for probabilistic program inference. A drawback of these techniques is that they rely on im…